In his case, it was musings on foreign policy, observations about the cognitive abilities of his colleagues and a not-so-minor fixation on the appearance of women, generally expressed ungenerously.
Minor improvement -- or not so minor -- for the Rays is a necessity.
This appears to have been the case with Paul Dehn, whose A Leaden Anthology of English Verse politely eviscerates a wide range of minor, and not so minor, versifiers.
But others were not so minor.
(Or maybe not so minor: Googling "Joe Biden," "custard" and "swear" yields more than six million results).
The knee injuries to Wood and Redman were not so minor.
When Ruud Gullit was leading Chelsea to the FA Cup in 1997, Terek Grozny, Chechnya's leading football club, had been temporarily disbanded, thanks to the not so minor issue that their home city had just been reduced to rubble by the Russian Army.
In addition to the minor - or not so minor - irritations of lengthy drives and traffic holdups, it's now been shown that long commutes, especially with multiple and prolonged delays, can take a toll on your health.
This point is in fact not so minor, as it concerns the explanatory and predictive utility of networks in biology.
Then there is the not-so-minor matter of facilitating a trade to a desirable location — desirable for them, that is.
Those not-so-minor quibbles aside, Chu has written a fascinating, thoughtful and important book.
